Although well pleased with your Journal for other purposes, I regarded your science of Psychometry as at least a "little doubtful." But, sir, I now do not doubt it — I am a firm believer in it. One of the preachers, I learn since, has been practising on this subject with much success. I have not seen him since.

Now, sir, this to me is all strange. In this country, however, a man is in danger of being regarded either as a fool or liar, who even speaks of this science. When, how, or by what means, is such ignorance of the laws of nature or science to be dissipated? Yours with esteem, W. F. E.

P. S.-Every word stated in the foregoing statement, I can prove by five persons of undoubted respectability.

DOCTOR BUCHANAN:

SPIRITUALITIES.

My dear Sir,-You will doubtless be gratified with the following extracts from a letter I have just received from a friend in Ravenna, Ohio, announcing the advent of the spirits to that place.

"The interest you expressed in a former letter, of keeping posted up,' prompts me to indite this hasty line, to say that we have recently enjoyed communion with the spirits of departed friends, through what we are instructed to call 'spiritual vibrations ;' which commenced last Saturday evening, the 17th instant, while we were at tea-table, conversing about a departed friend. I may say, that we have frequently heard the sounds here since last January; but have not been able to communicate until now. We have questions answered at every meal since, and also every evening; and quite a goodly number have been invited (by the sounds), and have not gone away empty." A great variety of test questions have been correctly answered, and various communications spelled out by the alphabet, upon different subjects, and from different spirits. Some important messages have been delivered; and when urged to say more to us, they uniformly reply, I have no more to say; or, I have delivered my message;' or, When I have anything more to say, I will notify you;' and other like expressions.

"We have been instructed, that when we are convinced (i. e. any one) of their presence and power to communicate, that we ought not to continue to interrogate them about unimportant matters; for by so doing we shall be very liable to be deceived by calling up spirits that would be willing to gratify us, &c.; and that when our guardian spirits have anything important for us, they will apprise us.

"The cautions that are given us look very reasonable and strongly marked, as, 'Hereafter, beware! you may be deceived,' &c. We are informed also that the reason why we have not had communication before now, is the lack of confidence on the part of my wife; which lack is now supplied by the presence of Mrs. B. G. Bushnell.

"This morning, my first wife manifested her presence, and responded to some questions, &c. St. Paul visited us last evening, and delivered a message to a Universalist clergyman of this place, without being called for. He was an unexpected visitor to us. The whole interview with him was very interesting.”

I expect to go to Ravenna as soon as I can leave my sick babe, and shall then embrace the opportunity of talking with these unseen visitants, and learn what I can of the nature and philosophy of these wonderful developments. From what has been ascertained through some channels, it seems that spirits out of the body are actuated by similar feelings to those who are in the body; that some of them are very mischievous, and are willing to play tricks in the spirit-world, announcing their name to be Swedenborg, or St. Paul, or some other prominent individual, while they do so only to deceive, and are as ignorant and stupid as they had been on earth; that others are influenced by vanity, pride, and a love of distinction, &c.

In another letter which I received from the same friend (Mr. C., of Ravenna.) in reply to several questions I had propounded to him immediately after receiving his first, he says: "The most of the communications that have been given, seem to be of a nature to convince of the existence and attendance of spirits in our daily walk and conversation. All express themselves happy, and some have received, Be ready to meet me' You will soon be with me' Your days are very few indeed,' &c. My brother,

who died in New York city lately, says: I was afraid to die, but now I am happy,' &c.; and gave us some statements in regard to his body remaining in a vault, his expenses being paid, and a trunk and clothing for his friends when they call for it, which statements are fully corroborated by a letter received since from one of his friends in New York.

"St. Paul's communication was, Will you believe, if I tell you I am Paul?' Mr. C. answered, I am inclined to.' Paul continued, 'Our friend Webster, (the Universalist clergyman before referred to), preaches my doctrine. You must believe and be happy, now and forever.' (This was to the whole company). I have one word for Mr. Webster Preach all my word don't fear, when Christ is with you even unto the end of the world.' Mr. W. then asked some questions in regard to his doctrines; * and then orders were given for Mrs. Bushnell to go into the clairvoyant state; and then, (as she says,) Paul used her as a mouth-piece' to explain himself.

Paul's occupation I think was stated, that night, to be like that of other good spirits, viz: to exert their influence on the living to do good. We have a chart of his head, given by Mrs. Bushnell that evening."

Excuse this hasty scrawl, as it has been written amid frequent interruptions.

CLAIRVOYANCE.

DEAR GRAY.-There is something wonderful and incomprehensible in Clairvoyance. It proves mind to be independent of the body, by separating our spiritual from our natural being, and leaving the latter an inert mass devoid of feeling or motion; while the former, unconfined by its corporeal tramel, dives into the hidden mysteries of nature, and unveils those things which to human vision and mortal understanding would be forever hid.

Until within the last five days I was a skeptic on this subject, and stigmatized it as a humbug.

I will give some curious facts which occurred under my own observations — they are curious enough.

Yesterday I received an invitation to call and see a clairvoyant now under charge of Dr. Westervelt, of this city, and who is used by him in investigating the diseases of his patients, and assists in prescribing proper medicines for their cure. I went, as I have already said, an unbeliever. After explaining my character, she alluded to a hurt I had received in childhood, as now having a great influence on my disposition. In that she was correct; neither did the Doctor nor his clairvoyant know anything previously of this circumstance, for they are both strangers to me, nor did any one else in Cleveland. That fact had for a long time escaped my memory, and I do not suppose I had once thought of it in the last fourteen years. I then questioned her in relation to an acquaintance, whose name she knows not and has never heard, and whose countenance she has never seen. I merely handed her an empty envelop directed to me in the handwriting of the person alluded to. The clairvoyant told me that individual's character with wonderful accuracy, and some circumstances in their private life which no one but myseif ever knew.

I then asked her what I had eaten for my previous dinner and supper, hoping thereby to baffle her. She told me every thing that I had eaten, and nothing more than what was strictly correct.

If a clairvoyant can thus tell the contents in a person's stomach, is it not reasonable to presume she can tell the secret organic diseases that so frequently prey undiscovered on the human system until they become fully developed and incurable, and which with out some such aid would in their early stages elude even the skillful observation of the most scientific physician!

Those who will not believe in clairvoyance for the reason that they cannot account for and explain it, let me ask, why the magnet trembles to the pole? and what does mind consist of? When they can tell me this, I can probably then tell them what clairvoyance is, and define its cause and operation.

CLEVELAND, June 26.-[Plain Dealer.

Yours truly,

M. G.

BUCHANAN'S

JOURNAL OF MAN.

Vol. II, No. 5—NOVEMBER, 1850.

ART. I.-THE SPIRIT WORLD!

THEY Come! They are with us!! The mysterious powers which have disturbed, astonished and confounded the people of New York during the past year, are now at work among us, and for a week past have been making distinct manifestations of their existence. These powers or invisible agencies, it is already known to my readers, are accustomed to manifest their presence by concussions, or raps, distinctly audible to all around. That such sounds and concussions have been produced by some invisible agency, is a proposition which has been placed beyond all doubt by the immense number of instances in which it has occurred publicly and privately at the East, in the presence of the most enlightened, cautious, honorable and skeptical persons, whose testimony leaves us no room to doubt the fact.

It is equally well established, that the mysterious invisible source of these sounds possesses intelligence, and delivers messages by these signals which often astonish the hearers. The intelligence conveyed is often of such a character as could not have been given by any human being unless highly endowed with the spiritual or clairvoyant faculty. We are therefore compelled to conclude from the facts

1. That the power producing these manifestations is not material, because it is not visible or tangible.

2. That it is highly intelligent, because it manifests a high order of intelligence in perceiving the unuttered thoughts of its interrogators, and in answering the most difficult questions.

3. That it is human, and not divine, because it is in some cases liable to error and confusion, and because it manifests a lively interest in particular human beings and local events.

4. That which is immaterial and intelligent is called spiritual, VOL. II.-H

and an immaterial intelligence which manifests will, moral character and individuality is called a spirit; hence we must apply the term spirit to the invisible, immaterial, intelligent powers, which have manifested themselves in New York and Cincinnati. 5. The character of the communications is extremely diversified, yet almost invariably benevolent, elevating and truthful, where a proper course has been pursued.

6. The spirits who make these communications generally profess to be the deceased friends of the parties who receive them; but in some instances profess to be the spirits of remarkable characters long since deceased.

7. These spiritual communications are partly dependent on human agency, as they appear only in the presence of certain persons, whose spiritual faculties or constitutional peculiarities are such as to favor the contact of the material and spiritual worlds, or to serve as a connecting medium by means of which purely spiritual beings may attain and exercise physical power. Yet they are mainly independent, as the messages which the spirits utter are from their own free will, and their appearance or disappearance is beyond our control.

8. The spirits which under certain circumstances are capable of producing a material concussion or vibration to communicate ideas, are also capable of displaying on some occasions great physical power, by moving heavy objects and producing violent shocks. They are also capable of coming into contact with the living, and apparently placing a spiritual hand upon the living body, with various degrees of force.

9. Certain highly-impressible persons profess to have been mesmerized by spiritual agents, and the spirits have on some occasions professed to do so. Clairvoyants have often recognized these spiritual beings as attendants upon the living, engaged in exercising a beneficial influence upon their minds.

10. The whole of these recent phenomena, which appear so marvelous, and yet are so well demonstrated, are corroborated in their demonstration by a vast and ancient experience, running through all ages of the world, and belonging to all countries whether savage or civilized. (A number of these facts may be gathered from "The Night Side of Nature.")

11. The existence of the spirit world in close apposition with the material world in which we now live, is a truth which has been spontaneously perceived at all times by many intelligent persons. My own nervauric experiments on the brain have shown that all highly-impressible persons are capable of having their spiritual and intuitive faculties sufficiently excited to rise into spiritual communion, to hold mental intercourse with departed friends, and thus to perceive the actual existence and daily history of that world of intelligence which is now operating for high and holy purposes upon the world of living material humanity.

ART. II. THE INTELLECTUAL ORGANS.

[CONTINUED.]

To demonstrate these functions in an impressible subject, let us touch the organ of Sensibility in the left hemisphere, while we disperse its excitement in the right hemisphere by a rapid movement of the hand. Under these operations, the right hand and the right side of the person generally will manifest an unusual sensibility, while the left hand and left side will be proportionally benumbed. St.ike or pinch the right hand and you produce pain, while the same infliction upon the left is unheeded. A handkerchief, a piece of cloth or paper felt by the right hand now appears unusually coarse, and to the left hand seems finer than it really is, because the texture seems less harsh, and the fibre less palpable to its diminished sensibility. If the eyes are closed, or if the substances are touched behind his back, he will give very different opinions of the texture of the same articles when held in different hands. The subject himself will be somewhat amused and astonished at the different opinions which he has expressed, when you show him that he has been examining but one article. Any hot or cold substance which you may apply suddenly to his right hand will give him a shock, while the same application to his left will seem a matter of indifference. The galvanic current which is intolerable to his right hand, gives no pain to his left. If he strikes his knuckles together, the sensitive hand alone is pained. But if you now reverse this excitement, generating sensibility in the left hand and removing it from the right, the bruises which the right hand had received will cease to be painful, and those of which the left hand had previously perceived no trace, will now be plainly manifest by the soreness which they have left behind. Let the region of Sensibility be excited in both hemispheres, and the subject will manifest a painful sensitiveness to blows, or to galvanic currents, and the smallest pair of plates will produce convulsive movements of the muscles of the arms, while the dispersion of excitement from Sensibility, or excitement of its antagonist organ Hardihood, will enable them to endure far more than in their usual condition.

By the development of Sensibility and its antagonist Hardihood, we readily explain many wonderful facts which have been narrated of Caspar Hauser, and of blind men who could distinguish coins and colors by touch. We can also understand the fortitude of those who bear pain with apparent unconcern, and the source of that indifference with which religious fanatics have